Brandon Deener valuation
Memphis-born painter and former music producer, based in Los Angeles, who paints long-necked Black figures and jazz horn players.
Brandon Deener was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1982 and grew up in a musical family, playing drums in church and later working as a beat-maker and producer in studios with Timbaland, Missy Elliott and Lil Wayne.
What a work by Brandon Deener is worth
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Bio
Brandon Deener was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1982 and grew up in a musical family, playing drums in church and later working as a beat-maker and producer in studios with Timbaland, Missy Elliott and Lil Wayne. Deener learned to paint largely from Instagram, which Deener has called an art school, and moved from pop-style still lifes of sweets and balloon dogs to hyperrealism worked from photographs, then to looser portraits of Black subjects. The figures often have long, stretched necks, which the artist describes as an Afrofuturist image of rising up and of Black pride, and jazz musicians such as Miles Davis and players of the horn recur. The paintings are in oil, acrylic, pigment stick and spray paint on canvas, linen, paper and wood. Deener has shown with Simchowitz Gallery and Jac Forbes Gallery in Los Angeles, A Hug from the Artworld in New York and Gallery One in Fort Lauderdale, and in 2024 Resonance, fifteen large paintings at Galerie 75 Faubourg, was a first solo exhibition in Paris. Deener lives and works in Los Angeles.
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